State Ex Rel. West Virginia Commission on Interstate Cooperation v. Sims

Fox, President:

This petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the defendant, Edgar B. Sims, Auditor, to honor a requisition drawn on him by the West Virginia Commission on Interstate Cooperation, in favor of the Council of State Governments, in the sum of $6,000.00, was filed in this Court on September 19, 1950, and a rule to show cause why the writ should not issue was awarded on September 25, 1950, and was argued by counsel at the present term. The questions involved will appear from the statement which follows.

By Chapter'39, Acts of the Legislature, 1937, the Legislature of this State…